George W. Bostick, Jr. v. Walter E. Craven, Warden

JAMES M. CARTER, Circuit Judge:

Appellant, serving a life sentence for murder following a plea of guilty, petitioned below for a writ of habeas corpus. The District Court denied relief without a hearing. We affirm.

Appellant and three accomplices were convicted, in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, of robbery-murder. The jury imposed the death penalty on appellant, and his three accomplices were given life imprisonment. Subsequently, however, the California Supreme Court reversed the convictions and remanded the cases on the basis of the United States Supreme Court decisions in Escobedo v.…